can anyone try to id this for me plz

[bws]

i know its not a very good picture but its all i could get. i bought this 2 weeks ago and its been hiding pretty much the whole time. i picked it off the bottom of a rock last night and moved it to get some light and gave it some mysis shrimp, now today its gone back into hiding. i am wondering of the health of it now i just want to make it thrive. i am also wondering about my lighting, if anyone is familiar with radion xr 30 with anemones and schedules for them i would love to hear from you.

currently my 2 radions are set to a shallow reef natural schedule at 12 feet deep and 55% on a 72 gallon bow tank everything in there is showing excellent growth but its all also been in the tank for a long time. then nem is new and came from like dim t5 lights.
is this anemone bleached out? is that why its so clear looking? it didnt really seem too interested in the mysis i gave it. my nem's i have always had in the past would instantly chow down any food i gave them.. this guy just didnt seem that interested in it i hope i did not buy a sickly nem

 

[Dkuhlmann]

It's a bleached BTA. Provide it lower lighting and feed it a few mysis every 3 days until it colors up. If your lights are too bright then it will continue to hide.

 

[hotelbravo]

Yes that's a BTA and its slightly bleached. Its common for anemones to go into hiding in the darkness for a few weeks to even over a month when introduced to a tank with high lighting like the radions. Do not move it back into the light again. it will move itself to the light when it is ready they do this because they are trying to acclimate and adapt to your lighting. think about when you wake up in the middle of the night and you turn the light on in the bathroom. it hurts your eyes makes you squint and takes a few minutes to get adapted to the lights. its the same concept with the anemones just takes a longer time to adapt. now about the bleached part I see you have tried feeding Mysis. I myself have never fed any of my anemones Mysis so im not sure what feeding response you expect but I usually feed mine chopped squid or oyster. feeding small pieces about the size of a dime would be preferred but don't overfeed since it has bleached some it is stressed and consuming food uses up energy that should be tied into recovering and instead uses that to digest the food.

 

[bws]

i know its a bubble tip anemone.. i meant what kind exactly is it? and as far as the mysis its the only meaty food i had so i tried some, not much just squirted some around it with a syringe with no needle in it so sorta like a turkey baster method.. but this thing has like lime green colors and orange/pinkish bubbles that turn lime green again at the very tips. i have never seen a bta look like that.

you say they can go a month hiding around in the rock work and not really eat anything and still be fine?
so i basicly tore my tank up for no reason? lol i wanted to to get out so my pair of clowns could see it and hoped they would go to it

 

[hotelbravo]

i know its a bubble tip anemone.. i meant what kind exactly is it? and as far as the mysis its the only meaty food i had so i tried some, not much just squirted some around it with a syringe with no needle in it so sorta like a turkey baster method.. but this thing has like lime green colors and orange/pinkish bubbles that turn lime green again at the very tips. i have never seen a bta look like that.

you say they can go a month hiding around in the rock work and not really eat anything and still be fine?
so i basicly tore my tank up for no reason? lol i wanted to to get out so my pair of clowns could see it and hoped they would go to it

the color looks good and i can only imagine what it will look like when it gets healthy. i assume it is a rainbow bubbletip. yes they can go into hiding for that long without eating and be fine.

 

[shifty51008]

i agree it looks like a RBTA like mine it has green mixed in with it that people call a rainbow BTA.

they do not need to be fed, good water parameters and light will do just fine for them. If you do want to feed it, just feed small ammounts of mysis or other small peices of food.

as for moveing it, I wouldn't worry about it. a coral will stay where you put it, but an anemone will move on it's own to where it is most happy, wether it be where you like it or not. also you run the risk of tearing the foot if you try to move it yourself.

 

[bws]

thank you all for the replies.. i am going to just do what i am doing but turn my lights to a different layout at a much lower % then work it back up over time. i talked to the lady i bought it from today she basicly said the same thing... just let it be

i still think its more than just a rainbow though.. but time will tell..

 

[bws]

nice!... turned my lights to the radiant color layout and set them to 45% and its come out today when i got home from work. once i get it where i want it to be i can slowly work them back. looks like it has quite a bit of color back also unless its just from the lights being so blue. cant wait to see it under the sunset tonight when it turns a redish color.. i dont like my tank being so blue but i guess thats what it took for this thing to come out from under the rocks. how long ya think i should let it go under the blue light before i change it back? week or so?